The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101871555 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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I had a glancing exposure to the program and Don Bitzer in the late 1960s as I embarked on work at UCLA on the ARPANET. He may have been Felix Ungar to Daniel Albert’s Oscar Madison, but I have never met a more determined engineer in my fifty-year career. A landmark work.”—George Dyson, author of Turing’s Cathedral. This book is a timely reminder of what PLATO people astonishingly accomplished long before the rest of the world caught on.” —Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google “Finally! Here is the secret history of the Internet’s elder sibling, the one no one talks about after a mysterious disappearance.&r
. He has also worked at a variety of dot-com companies, including MP3 and eBay. He lives with his wife in Santa Fe, New Mexico. BRIAN DEAR is a longtime tech-startup entrepreneur and the founder of companies including Coconut Computing, FlatWorks, Eventful, and Nettle. He has written for Educational Technology, BYTE, IEEEExpert, and the San Diego Reader. He worked in the field of computer-based education for eight years, including five on the PLATO
Every technology story—whether it's about the steam engine, airplane, telephone, Model T, or more recently, Apple, Google, and the Tesla electric car—has at its core a vision: the immutable nature of technology, and technology visions, to run full life cycles, from cradle to grave. The Friendly Orange Glow is a revelatory paradigm for our technological age.. The many thousands of people who used the system have held on to the PLATO ideas throughout their careers, influencing countless tech